The power of collaboration: 6 success factors for private-NGO partnerships
This blog was written by Marcela Hahn, Penny Studholme and originally appeared on www.devex.com on June 23, 2015.
Organizations from different sectors are increasingly recognizing the potential of greater cooperation to achieve positive change and improve the way that individual organizations can approach their work.
This new outlook finds nongovernmental organizations identifying opportunities to work with private sector companies and, in turn, companies are seeing the benefits of greater engagement with civil society and NGOs to build a more strategic approach to development.
Cargill and CARE go back a long way in this space. The two organizations started collaborating in 1958, and as Cargill, a global provider and marketer of food, agricultural, industrial and financial products and services, expanded and grew its business across the globe, so it broadened and deepened its contribution to the work of CARE, which itself had grown in influence and impact.
Since these early years, the partnership has evolved, becoming more strategic in addressing development challenges around the world, cemented with the five-year $10 million Rural Development Initiative launched in 2008 and further extended in 2013 with a three-year $7.5 million program.
As Cargill celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2015, it has reflected on its heritage of working in partnership with others to address issues of food security and poverty eradication. Together CARE and Cargill are proud to share their learning and perspectives on the importance of collaboration to achieve scalable, sustainable impact.